I’m really loving PieFed but there’s one nagging thing that’s making it tough to fully switch over from Lemmy. I post a lot of news articles. The autofill works great but there are many news sites that fail every time – CBC, Tyee, The Atlantic, NYT, WaPo are a few examples (probably cloudflare issues). You can copy-paste the headline and subheading but no-go for the image. Lemmy solved this by having a separate field to either upload or link to a image. As it stands, probably ~40% of the articles I’d post just look bad in the feed without a possible fix. It’d be great to have a similar feature to resolve it.

This is much more minor but It would also be lovely to have a “failed to fetch” notification when the autofill fails. Or some indication that the tool is working but the website is being a bit of a dick.

Thanks!

  • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There is an open issue for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/887

    I actually tried to implement this at one point, but ran into some issues that held things up, and I pivoted to specifying alt text instead. I would have to take another look to refresh my memory on what the particular issue was.